MIGRANTS

Dhaka: At least 48 people, including many women and children, were killed on Sunday when an overcrowded ferry with over 150 passengers sank in a river in northwestern Bangladesh after colliding with a trawler, the latest maritime tragedy to hit the country.
The ferry, heading to Paturia from Daulatdia in Rajbari,...

Corigliano Calabro: A ship abandoned by its crew and left drifting with 450 migrants on board reached Italy's jagged southern coast on Friday, ending the second gruelling "ghost ship" rescue operation this week.
Women and children were among hundreds of migrants left stranded aboard the Ezadeen, which docked in the port...

Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday reached out to his party workers in Guwahati by saying that his government will do whatever it takes to ensure peace and harmony in Assam.
On day two of his tour of the Northeast, he addressed a meeting of party workers in Guwhati. Modi...

Nicosia, Cyprus: About 228 migrants, apparently refugees from Syria, have been rescued after their damaged ship drifted for hours in rough seas off Cyprus' northern coast, an official said on Sunday.
Hasan Tacoy, transport minister of the Turkish Cypriot breakaway state in Cyprus' north, told The Associated Press that the migrants,...

Jammu: The Election Commission on Sunday said it has made provisions for 21 special polling stations in Jammu district to enable Kashmiri migrants to cast their votes in the upcoming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
"To facilitate voting by the Kashmiri Migrant voters, 21 special polling stations will be set...

New Delhi: Aiming to provide temporary shelter for migrants and homeless people, the government is firming up a new initiative to launch a rental housing project in the big cities to answer their accommodation needs.
"We are launching a major initiative to promote rental housing on a large scale, for...

Jodhpur: The Pakistani Hindus who have migrated to India, fearing their persecution in Pakistan, celebrated their first Diwali in Jodhpur, their homeland as they believe.
For these nowhere people living out of makeshift settlements in Jodhpur it's truly a special Diwali, for some it's the first that they are celebrating in...

Srinagar: The work of reconstruction in the floodravaged Kashmir could get delayed by at least six months due to the mass exodus of migrant labour force in the wake of the natural calamity that hit the valley causing huge damage to infrastructure both public as well as private.
Even the...

Tripoli: More than 250 migrants may have died when a boat sank a kilometre (half a mile) off the Libyan coast, a coastguard official said on Sunday.
"We believe there are still more than 250 bodies trapped underwater," coastguard official Mohammad Abdellatif told Reuters. "When we went underwater we discovered that...

London: One among the 35 people who were illegally trespassing into the United Kingdoms via waterways was found dead in one of the shipping containers on Saturday morning.
UK media reports suggest that the illegal migrants including children could be from India. They were found in shipping container at Tilbury...

New Delhi: The inflow of migrants into Delhi needs to be stopped to solve the problems of the capital, BJP leader Vijay Goel said in the Rajya Sabha as the upper house debated the Delhi budget.
"Every day more migrants come to Delhi... Most of them are from Bihar and Uttar...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed concern over an incident in which arms of two migrant labourers were chopped off by contractors in January 2014.
The court has ordered the Odisha government to file an affidavit outlining what efforts the state government is taking to prevent such incidents.
Expressing concern...

Washington: Most of the unaccompanied kids attempting to enter the United States through the southern border will not likely qualify for humanitarian relief and will be deported, the White House has said.
"It's unlikely that most of the kids who go through this process will qualify for humanitarian relief, which...

New Delhi: Retired Indian security personnel must be allowed to settle along the Bangladesh border to be New Delhi's "eyes and ears" visavis illegal migration, a former BSF officer says. Retired Border Security Force (BSF) Additional Director General PK Mishra also warns that India's failure to stop the growing illegal...

Rome: About 30 bodies have been found in a migrant boat which was stopped between Sicily and the North African coast, Italian news agencies reported on Monday, citing the navy and coastguard.
The rescuers made the gruesome discovery when they boarded a fishing boat carrying around 590 refugees and migrants to...

Phnom Penh: More than 110,000 Cambodians have fled Thailand to return home in the past week, fearing a crackdown on migrant workers after last month's military takeover, an official said on Sunday.
Labourers from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar play a key role in Thai industries such as seafood, agriculture and...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday took an indirect dig at Narendra Modi for remarks of a Gujarat minister linking migration from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh to surge in the number of poor in state over the last decade.
"I wonder what type of government will come up at the...

Bihar Migrant Resource Centre (BMRC), which seeks to address the needs of migrants in the city, was on Friday inaugurated by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Kumar, who launched it via videoconferencing, asked the state's resident commissioner to promote the initiatives of the centre, which is aimed at reducing the "vulnerability"...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of media reports on two Odisha labourers whose hands were chopped off by a contractor from Andhra Pradesh in December last year.
The top court issued notices to the Odisha and Andhra Pradesh governments over the incident.
The hands of the two...

Kokrajhar: Six migrant workers from Bihar have been killed by suspected Bodo militants on Friday night when Bodo militants opened fire at passengers in a bus coming from West Bengal to Shillong.
The Bihar government has announced compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the relatives of the six people who have...

New Delhi: Delhi is a city of opportunities, a city where thousands of people migrate from other states in search of jobs. It is this migrant population which all political parties are trying hard to impress before the city goes to polls on December 4.
Chief Ministers of other states are...

Shillong: Ten political and social groups in Meghalaya on Sunday claimed that illegal Bangladeshi migrants enter the state after obtaining proof of "Indian citizenship" from Assam and urged President Pranab Mukherjee to ask the state government to implement the inner line permit system.
In an open letter to Mukherjee, ahead of...

Having left Patna in his teens, USbased author Amitava Kumar has again rejuvenated links with his hometown with a "whimsical" and "ratinfested" account of the city, once the 'ancient capital' of India.
Fiftyyearold Kumar has written a short nonfiction, a narrative attempt to encapsulate the "character" of the city, balancing memoirs,...

Italy on Tuesday detained a 35yearold Tunisian man suspected of being the captain of a boat carrying African migrants that sank off the tiny island of Lampedusa.
Divers, meanwhile, recovered dozens of additional bodies from the wreckage, raising the death toll to 275. Just 155 migrants, most if not all from...

The rickety fishing boat was the third of the night to head toward the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, overloaded with African migrants seeking a better life in Europe. Most never reached shore.
After the boat started taking on water, someone on board set a fire to get the attention of...

Separated from her parents during a train journey nearly three months ago, a 14yearold girl of Odisha's Nuapada district, who had to work as a maid in Gujarat before being rescued by an NGO, returned home, police said on Monday.
The girl, Sunita of Fokatpada village, was brought by a team...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday said his government has taken up the issue of enhancing financial aid to construct buildings for Kashmiri migrant pandits with the Centre from Rs 7.5 lakh to Rs 20 lakh.
"The State Government has vehemently taken up the issue of enhancing building...

Rome: The Italian coastguard has intercepted a boat off the island of Sicily with 100 Syrian migrants on board, including 10 women, one whom was heavily pregnant. A police vessel accompanied the migrant boat into the port at Syracuse on Sicily's eastern coast, where medical checks were carried out on...

Jalandhar: The international border with Pakistan in Punjab is slowly emerging as the preferred area for illegal Bangladeshi migrants to cross over into Pakistan as the first step towards finding employment in the MiddleEast, Border Security Force officials said in Jalandhar. In the last fourandahalf years, BDF has apprehended 72...

Mumbai: As many as 80 per cent children of migrant labourers in the state either drop out of schools or have no education at all as they get sucked into the labour workforce, a study released here Sunday reveals.
According to the study by a noted NGO, while Maharashtra government's Right...